Favourite Quotations

[Hermskii]

Love that last one!

[a nameless entity]

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. - George Carlin

Ah, good old George Carlin. How I miss him. And Johnny Carson. And George on Johnny's show. I should have stayed up late more often, back in the day.

Someone build a time machine and send me back!

[Hermskii]

It is funny in that this is how I feel exactly. My thoughts are that if indeed we are the only beings in this whole big place or if we are the best and the smartest, that would be sad to me. I all pro humanity and all but come on. Really? We are the best thing this universe has to offer? Hmmm?

[*POTS*]

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

[a nameless entity]

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

Agreed!

And along a similar line we have:

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
- Franklin P. Adams

[Hermskii]

Hahaha! Indeed! Good one from both of you!

[a nameless entity]

Possible repeats here, but I like the theme these quotations suggest:

Be yourself, everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. - Eddie Cantor

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. - Anna Quindlen

We turn not older with years, but newer every day. - Emily Dickinson

[Hermskii]

We turn not older with years, but newer every day. - Emily Dickinson

Ummmmmm? No. That one sucked. I don't get it. Just me?

[a nameless entity]

We turn not older with years, but newer every day. - Emily Dickinson

Ummmmmm? No. That one sucked. I don't get it. Just me?

She refers not to the body, but to the spirit that lives within that body.

(As do all of those quotations, really.)

[Hook]

Yes I see it also - And agree!

[a nameless entity]

Mustard's no good without roast beef. - Chico Marx

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. - W. C. Fields

I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. - Gilda Radner

[Hermskii]

Don't ask the question if you can't stand the answer.

Just because you're paranoid it doesn't mean you aren't being following.

[a nameless entity]

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers

Oh, man rofl!

[Hermskii]

On the count of 3:

1.



2.

FIRE!

[a nameless entity]

Pick your own favourite from this list of worthy ponder-ables.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. -- Franklin P. Jones

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination. -- Victor Hugo

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. -- Lord Chesterfield

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. -- Kent Nerburn

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it. -- Lord Brabazon

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated. -- Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket"

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. -- John Russell

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. -- George Burns

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. -- Rabbinical Saying

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world. -- C. S. Lewis